Welcome to farmsubsidy.org!
The European Union spends around €55 billion a year on farm subsidies. This website helps people find out who gets what, and why.
Latest news & reports from the farmsubsidy.org network
New funding
New funding secures farmsubsidy.org's future as a data journalism project for the next two years.
Let The Sunshine In
We're calling for new rules to increase transparency in farm subsidies. Will you add your voice to our campaign?
2011 Farm Subsidy Data Harvest: Millionaires and Missing Money
For the third year running, an international group of journalists, transparency activists and computer programmers gathered in Brussels for three days
What people are saying about farmsubsidy.org
"A valuable public service"- Mark Halle, Global Subsidies Initiative
"Dogged work"- The Guardian
"Extremely important"- Stephen Castle, International Herald Tribune
"Geek activism done right"- World Changing
"Marvelous"- Tim Lang, Professor of Food Policy
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Latest annotations
- donnette1 annotated METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF BOLTON:
Bolton Council Chief Exc Sean Harriss Bolton Town Hall Victoria Square Bolton Lancs BL1 1UR Looking at a recent land allocation plan at local area forum produced by BMBC, could ...
- freedaa annotated C MASON-HORNBY:
Large land owner/ landlord based Burton in Kendal, Cumbria
- henk annotated VANDEPITTE HENK:
Hey, Henk here (reipient to you). Yes we get a lot of help from the tax- payer. Without it agriculture would be simply impossible, unless people want to pay double ...
- MrFreedomtoFly annotated D B DAVIES & SONS:
we have been told by numerous people in the locality that his farm is wildly exagurating the amount that they are entitled too, in fact they are renown around these ...
- 40acres annotated Balnacoil Farming Ltd:
This is an estate in the highlands of Scotland, owned by Danish millionaire Peter Nissan. It was featured in the BBC Panorama expose of waste and abuse of the farm ...